The initial work on this program began in 2002 at Norwegian Computing Center (http://www.nr.no/) and PING, a computer club at University of Oslo (http://www.ping.uio.no/). Work on GIRL continued in 2014 after a visit to SIPB (http://sipb.mit.edu/) at MIT, reached version 1.0 in 2015, and continues in 2016.

24 people have contributed to the program with new patches and translations. See AUTHORS for the list of contributors.

If you find the program useful, drop me an email at ole@src.gnome.org.

The program is completely free, but you don’t have to do anything else than run it on your computer with a free operating system in order to listen to and record from Internet radio stations. You are
also free to fork it as long as you follow the license terms in GNU GPL version 2, but I would appreciate if you send patches instead of releasing your own version.

You could install and run it on free GNU/Linux systems (such as Debian GNU/Linux available from http://www.debian.org/ and Fedora Linux available from https://getfedora.org/ with the provided binary packages) and MacOS X (via macports.org) in order to listen to and record from the 76 supported Internet radio stations around the world if you have installed the Videos application (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos) from the GNOME project, simply by opening a terminal window (such as xterm, kterm, rxvt or GNOME Terminal) and typing wget http://download.gnome.org/sources/girl/8.0/girl-8.0.0.tar.xz
tar Jxvf girl-8.0.0.tar.xz
cd girl-8.0.0/
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local && make && make install
$HOME/local/bin/girl

This program is released as a part of the GNOME project (http://www.gnome.org/) and is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Changes since GNOME Internet Radio Locator 7.0.0:

Stations

* src/girl.xml: Add WNYC (New York City, NY)
* src/girl-gui.c: New default station: New York Public Radio
(WNYC)

To enable debugging messages, modifiy the compilation definition flag from -DGIRL_DEBUG=1 to -DGIRL_DEBUG=0 in src/Makefile.am, if you want to debug your own personal station definitions in $HOME/.girl/girl.xml. See src/girl.xml (or ${PREFIX}/share/girl/girl.xml where PREFIX is the install path specified as ./configure --prefix=${PREFIX}, see INSTALL) for the GIRL radio station format in XML. Feel free to contribute translations to new languages, and submit suggestions for improvements in Bugzilla on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=girl

Thanks to all who contributed stations/patches/translations in the 8.0 release!